FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - The 108.5-km Stage 11 from Albertville to La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo - July 18, 2018 - Bahrain-Merida rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy in action. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
L'ALPE D'HUEZ, France (Reuters) - Former champion Vincenzo Nibali has pulled out of the Tour de France with a fractured vertebra suffered in a crash near the end of the 12th stage on Thursday.
The Italian crashed with about four kilometres left on l'Alpe d'Huez but got up and ended the stage in seventh place, 13 seconds behind winner and race leader Geraint Thomas.
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